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Steam hardware Survey For June 2023 (store.steampowered.com)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It's always quite reassuring to see how many other people are bumping along with old and feeble hardware, despite all the hype for new, expensive stuff.

[–] ItsaB3AR 3 points 1 year ago

Being a Nobara user, with AMD CPU and GPU, I’m very much a minority.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

As an owner of a (desktop)1650 I am surprised to see that it is the most popular.

But thinking a little about it, it is not so weird, after all pretty much every affordable gaming laptop comes with a 1650.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Does the intel number include integrated graphics? If not that 8% is fairly impressive

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Ha! And 40% of the 'Linux' responders are on the Steam Deck. Impressive. So with about 3 million sold, that would be about 4.5 million 'desktop' Linux gamers, about 650k of whom are on Arch, like me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can click into it to get the details; short answer is 'integrated', Intel discrete cards don't even make it to the bottom, so less than 0.15% of responders.

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/

Adding up all the 'laptop' graphics cards comes to about 25% of the total. That would explain why the 'median' results for some of the metrics are relatively weak - 1920x1080 screen, 16 Gb of RAM. Be interesting if they kept laptops and desktops separately for those.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That is.. less impressive

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Short answer: that 8% in Intel iGPU are basically "PC in wait for a AMD/Nvidia videocard to be installed"

We strongly need Intel to succeed in the PC gaming industry for two reason:

  1. they deliver OpenSoucre driver (only for Linux currently, but Linux can make a PC become anything)

  2. give more weight to customer against Nvidia (which are openly against the customers)

  3. support for more open industry standards (Nvidia still the problem here)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

As an owner of a (desktop)1650 I am surprised to see that it is the most popular.

But thinking a little about it, it is not so weird, after all pretty much every affordable gaming laptop comes with a 1650.